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The Reedy Glacier is a major glacier, over 100 nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi) long and 6 to 12 nautical miles (11 to 22 km; 6.9 to 13.8 mi) wide, descending from the polar plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf between the Michigan Plateau and Wisconsin Range. It marks the limits of the Queen Maud Mountains on the west and the Horlick Mountains on the ...
Russkiye Mountains (Russian Mountains) is a widely scattered group of mountains and nunataks between the Hoel Mountains and Sor Rondane Mountains in Queen Maud The group was mapped from air photos taken by Norwegian Antarctic Expedition December 1958-Jan. 1959.
Pages in category "Mountain ranges of Queen Maud Land" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Queen Maud Mountains The Erb Range ( 84°38′00″S 177°36′00″W / 84.63333°S 177.60000°W / -84.63333; -177.60000 ) is a rugged mountain range rising to 2,240 metres (7,350 ft) between Kosco Glacier and Shackleton Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains , and extending north from Anderson Heights to Mount Speed on the west side ...
The Petermann Ranges (German: Petermannketten) are a number of associated mountain ranges including the Östliche Petermann, Mittlere Petermann, Westliche Petermann, Südliche Petermann, and Pieck Ranges, located just east of the Humboldt Mountains in the central Wohlthat Mountains of Queen Maud Land. These mountain ranges were discovered and ...
Jøkulkyrkja Mountain seen from the east. The summit is behind what seems like the highest peak to the right. This list of mountains of Queen Maud Land contains mountains with a registered elevation of higher than 2000 metres (6561 feet) above sea level. The availability of accurate data for this region is limited, making the list both ...
Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land) [note 1] is a roughly 2.7-million-square-kilometre (1.0-million-square-mile) [5] region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. [6] It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east .
Peaks in the range were first sighted by Captain Roald Amundsen in 1911, and the range was mapped in detail by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30.It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Donald A. Quarles, United States Secretary of the Air Force, 1955–57, and United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1957–59, at the outset of the International ...